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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a veritable transfer rumour. From out of left field it is said that Liverpool FC is interested in buying one Philipp Max aged 25 of Augsburg. Source is completely unreliable. Why 'Sport' would be reporting this I don't know but there it is.
(BBC gossip page)

Yeah, I'm not sure I get the hangup over what was probably just run through Google Translate in any case. Assuming it's true then it no doubt just refers to his agent.

I can't picture an uncapped left-back playing for an unfashionable German team, basically the Bundesliga equivalent of Southampton, trailing about the place with a mob of hangers-on like a celebrity hairdresser lol

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Thinking about a leftback, Philipp Max /Augsburg would be a typical "Klopp transfer" . Pace, beautiful left foot, and most importantly, a very nice, hard working, down to earth guy imo. He would need some time to adept but that would be the case for every new signing anyway.

Ever heard of Philipp Max? No? Where have you been while the Augsburg defender has set up as many goals as Bayern Munich's FIFA World Cup-winning forward Thomas Müller and more than his colleague for club and country, Philipp Lahm's successor Joshua Kimmich.

Yours for £1m. Need to make room for Dean Saunders

Guys, I was last here a while ago saying we need to spend more.
we spent money and won the Champions League.
Now you’re all bending over backwards to say we don’t need to improve the squad whilst everyone else is.
How did the years before we spent the spent any money go?

It’s not a difficult decision. Spend and win, or rely on Jones, Woodburn etc. and win f*ck all.

We went out of both cups first round last year - something I was glad about cos I knew our squad wasn’t big enough. This year we have a Charity Shield, Super Cup and World Cup Championship as extra, we’ve lost Sturridge who played games and everyone thinks this squad can cope with that?

Does no one want to win a domestic cup? Without a bigger squad we will never challenge.

The ridiculous comments that suggest no one could get a game in our front three - they’ve all been playing all summer. How long can we flog them without a rest?

Please stop suggesting we don’t need anyone and let’s start considering what are we going to do with all the money pouring into the club unless we do.

If you read through relevant bits of the thread, you’ll see that the vast majority of people think we could do with a bit more depth, but accept it is hard to add to this squad and we’ll have to see what the summer brings.

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Guys, I was last here a while ago saying we need to spend more.
we spent money and won the Champions League.
Now you’re all bending over backwards to say we don’t need to improve the squad whilst everyone else is.
How did the years before we spent the spent any money go?

It’s not a difficult decision. Spend and win, or rely on Jones, Woodburn etc. and win f*ck all.

We went out of both cups first round last year - something I was glad about cos I knew our squad wasn’t big enough. This year we have a Charity Shield, Super Cup and World Cup Championship as extra, we’ve lost Sturridge who played games and everyone thinks this squad can cope with that?

Does no one want to win a domestic cup? Without a bigger squad we will never challenge.

The ridiculous comments that suggest no one could get a game in our front three - they’ve all been playing all summer. How long can we flog them without a rest?

Please stop suggesting we don’t need anyone and let’s start considering what are we going to do with all the money pouring into the club unless we do.

You were last here in September 2017 telling everyone what a shit transfer window we'd had.

Since then one of the players we signed that window won player of the year with a new PL scoring record, and got golden boot again this year, we've been to back-to-back CL finals, winning the most recent, got the third highest points in PL history, a player we tried to sign in 2017 joined us in January 2018, succeeded the previous player as player of the year and is arguably the best player in the world, certainly the best defender.

During these successes you posted nothing. Welcome back, thanks for the moan, looks like we're doing fine. Cheers.

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On a serious note, Swedish media are quoting an interview with James Miner, where Milner States that he approached Liverpool regarding an exterminator of the contract last year, and the answer was 'no'. Now the time is soon up and still nobody has contacted Milner about a new contract/extension.

Honestly speaking, and I hate admitting it with him being a United player and all, but in terms of young English talent, Rashford is probably one of the most natural finishers Ive seen in a long time. With the right supply, that boy could easily be a 25+ striker a season. £250k a week is fuckn ridiculous tho

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On a serious note, Swedish media are quoting an interview with James Miner, where Milner States that he approached Liverpool regarding an exterminator of the contract last year, and the answer was 'no'. Now the time is soon up and still nobody has contacted Milner about a new contract/extension.

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Shaqiri, Lallana, Keïta all injured. Salah, Firmino, Becker and Mané still on vacation and it will take 6 weeks for them after returning to be truly fit again. The CS is less than two weeks away and the start of the PL 4 days later.

We might start tose matches with Wilson-Origi/Brewster-Kent upfront so yes IMO you should be worried. We should have bought a top-notch attacker.

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Shaqiri, Lallana, Keïta all injured. Salah, Firmino, Becker and Mané still on vacation and it will take 6 weeks for them after returning to be truly fit again. The CS is less than two weeks away and the start of the PL 4 days later.

We might start tose matches with Wilson-Origi/Brewster-Kent upfront so yes IMO you should be worried. We should have bought a top-notch attacker.

I think we will be fine. Salah and Becker will probably be back for the Norwich game if not earlier. I wouldnt be surprised if Mane started early too - probably wont need that much of a pre season if he has played non stop for 13 months - Klopp may give him a breather more frequently in the season to compensate.

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Shaqiri, Lallana, Keïta all injured. Salah, Firmino, Becker and Mané still on vacation and it will take 6 weeks for them after returning to be truly fit again. The CS is less than two weeks away and the start of the PL 4 days later.

We might start tose matches with Wilson-Origi/Brewster-Kent upfront so yes IMO you should be worried. We should have bought a top-notch attacker.

At least three of those four will start against Norwich. Players don't take 6 weeks to get up to fitness these days - they're essentially doing pre-season with their national clubs and then get a couple of weeks off where they will still be on a strict diet and a tailored fitness regime given to them by Liverpool's conditioning coach.

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At least three of those four will start against Norwich. Players don't take 6 weeks to get up to fitness these days - they're essentially doing pre-season with their national clubs and then get a couple of weeks off where they will still be on a strict diet and a tailored fitness regime given to them by Liverpool's conditioning coach.

For sure it will take longer than the 12 days they have before the Norwich match. It may be the end of august/beginning of September before they are truly fit and have some rhythm. Meanwhile, there is a big chance of injuries if they play in competitive matches not truly fit.

We simply don't have enough high-quality attackers. We lost the PL title to City and I did not see anyone coming in to make me believe we came closer/overtake them.